LLVM Tutorial: Table of Contents — LLVM 22.1.3 documentation

# LLVM Tutorial: Table of Contents

## Kaleidoscope: Implementing a Language with LLVM

My First Language Frontend with LLVM Tutorial

  This is the “Kaleidoscope” Language tutorial, showing how to implement a simple language using LLVM components in C++.

- 1. Kaleidoscope: Kaleidoscope Introduction and the Lexer
- 2. Kaleidoscope: Implementing a Parser and AST
- 3. Kaleidoscope: Code generation to LLVM IR
- 4. Kaleidoscope: Adding JIT and Optimizer Support
- 5. Kaleidoscope: Extending the Language: Control Flow
- 6. Kaleidoscope: Extending the Language: User-defined Operators
- 7. Kaleidoscope: Extending the Language: Mutable Variables
- 8. Kaleidoscope: Compiling to Object Code
- 9. Kaleidoscope: Adding Debug Information
- 10. Kaleidoscope: Conclusion and other useful LLVM tidbits

## Building a JIT in LLVM

- 1. Building a JIT: Starting out with KaleidoscopeJIT
- 2. Building a JIT: Adding Optimizations – An introduction to ORC Layers
- 3. Building a JIT: Per-function Lazy Compilation
- 4. Building a JIT: Extreme Laziness - Using LazyReexports to JIT from ASTs

## External Tutorials

Tutorial: Creating an LLVM Backend for the Cpu0 Architecture

  A step-by-step tutorial for developing an LLVM backend. Under active development at https://github.com/Jonathan2251/lbd (please contribute!).

Howto: Implementing LLVM Integrated Assembler

  A simple guide for how to implement an LLVM integrated assembler for an architecture.

## Advanced Topics

1. Writing an Optimization for LLVM